Neuroscience

Image guidance and neuronavigation offer improved outcomes in neurosurgery for tumor. This is a story of a young boy who was diagnosed with a tumor in brainstem.

Stereotactic radiosurgery enables non-invasive and bloodless approach in treating brain tumor. Dr. Ravi Suman Reddy, neurosurgeon, Yashoda Hospitals, explains stereotactic radiosurgery as an advancing technique in the treatment of benign brain tumors, vascular and nerve disorders of spine and brain.

Deep brain stimulation surgery is a recent innovation that is indicated for Parkinson’s symptoms responsive to medicines. DBS improves moderate disability in patients who are cognitively intact. Patients who experience “on-off medication” states or dyskinesias are good candidates for DBS surgery.

Today, as brain tumors are on the rise, it is essential to understand what they are and how they can affect the human body.
But there are other risk factors like a small number of cases have been documented in medical history where there are families that have several members with brain tumours. But this number is very less. What exactly causes a brain tumour in some patients and not in others is still being studied.